BRIEF INVITATION TO TAKE A LITTLE TEST
You are invited to look at yourself in a new way, to see how healthy, holy, and together you are as a person, according to the 3000-year-old wisdom of the Bible. The Character Assessment Scale - mini (CASm) is a free, secure, anonymous online test that measures signs of selfishness vs. godliness, fruits of the flesh vs. the spirit. The CASm just takes 15 minutes to complete, and immediately gives you two pages of emailed feedback. After that, to protect your time and privacy, no more emails will be sent.
The scales measure what the Bible teaches will bring you liveliness over burn-out, strength over weakness, and wisdom over foolishness in your life. If you’re ready to go ahead and take the test without knowing more about it, skip to the last line of this page. But if you want to know a little more, just keep reading this page.
Your test will measure nine soul foods (assets and experiences God made us all to give, receive, and long for). To draw us closer to God, and prepare us for heaven, we can choose to take in and share the whole foods God made for us (fruits of the spirit), or the junk foods we make for ourselves (fruits of the flesh). Learning from your test feedback will help you recognize and choose God’s gifts and blessings in these nine issues:
- HEALTH – Food, Drink, Exercise, Medicine & Drugs
- PEACE – Safety, Strength, Shelter, Sanctuary, Trust, Faith
- LOVE – Concern, Caring, Comfort, Support
- HONOR – Respect, Esteem, Value, Worth
- PURPOSE – Time, Energy, Work, Effort, Vitality, Focus, Drive
- GRACE – Mercy, Hurt, Blame, Guilt, Justice, Forgiveness
- LOVEMAKING – Sex, Bonding, Loyalty, Beauty, Desire, Gender, Family, Modesty
- WEALTH – Money, Treasure, Possessions (Clothes, Cars, Houses, etc.)
- TRUTH – Reality, Authority, Validity
You will find many important differences between what God makes and what we make. Our selfish choices will make us feel better now, while our godly choices will make us and others feel and do better, both now and in the long run. With selfish fruits, the more we give or get, the more we feel we need to get – we become whirlpools of draining emptiness. By contrast, with God’s fruits of the spirit, the more we give or get, the more we can give, to others, and also to ourselves – we become wellsprings of overflowing fulness.
To recognize and prefer God’s will over your own, take the test here:
